{"id":72177,"date":"2025-11-14T21:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/intrusive-verification-of-information-using-digital-technologies\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:39:05","slug":"intrusive-verification-of-information-using-digital-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/intrusive-verification-of-information-using-digital-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Intrusive verification of information using digital technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compulsive, difficult-to-control behavior characterized by constant and repetitive searching, refining, and monitoring of digital data (news, notifications, messages, social media, health indicators, etc.) in order to reduce anxiety, insecurity, and gain a sense of control, but with the opposite effect of increased stress, maladjustment, and disruption of normal daily functioning. This is a maladaptive strategy for coping with anxiety, reinforced by the digital environment, where technology is not the cause, but acts as a catalyst and tool for the implementation of obsessive behavior. From a psychological point of view, this behavior can lead to chronic anxiety, as a person begins to constantly doubt the reliability of the information received and feels that digital technologies cannot be fully trusted.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compulsive, difficult-to-control behavior characterized by constant and repetitive searching, refining, and monitoring of digital data (news, notifications, messages, social media, health indicators, etc.) in order to reduce anxiety, insecurity, and gain a sense of control, but with the opposite effect of increased stress, maladjustment, and disruption of normal daily functioning. This is a maladaptive strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-13-key-psychological-concepts-in-digital-and-artificial-intelligence-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}